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A photo of U.S. route 30 in Oregon. (Flickr user Curtis Perry / Flickr)

Yellow paint stains Maryland Highway, causes massive traffic backup

June 4, 2015
Ciera Rogers, far right, receives condolences from her friend Sam Hinde, on the loss of Rogers' grandfather, who was shot and killed the night before on a sidewalk near his home, in the northern Colorado town of Loveland, Thursday, June 4, 2015. At left, facing, Emmett Pelissier hugs Ciera Rogers' sister Sadie. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

3 shootings in northern Colorado may be connected

June 4, 2015
Jeb Bush: The former Florida Gov. speaks in Oklahoma City. Jeb Bush stepped into the Republican race for president June 4.

Republican Jeb Bush confirms he will seek presidential candidacy

June 4, 2015
Gabe Lentz, a lineman with Entergy Arkansas, pours water over his head to cool off , in Little Rock, Ark., as temperatures reached well into the 90s in this Aug. 8, 2006 file photo. (AP Photo/Mike Wintroath)

Scientific study refutes claim that global warming is on hiatus

June 4, 2015
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks in Hampton, NH in this file photo. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Hillary Clinton calls for early voting expansion

June 4, 2015
Texas Rep. Kenneth Sheets, R-Dallas, poses with three of the six solid, mahogany gavels he broke during the legislative session this year, Monday, June 1, 2015, in Austin, Texas. At 5-feet-5-inches, Sheets is one of the smallest members of the Texas Legislature, but he's broken six solid, mahogany gavels crafted by Texas prison inmates this session alone, outpacing any other lawmaker. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Small Texas legislation member breaks 6 walnut gavels in 5 months

June 2, 2015
Two spectators hold signs reading

FIFA president Blatter steps down

June 2, 2015
Boston police officers and detectives investigate at the scene of a shooting Tuesday morning, June 2, 2015) at 4600 Washington St. in Roslindale, Mass. A man under surveillance by terrorism investigators has been shot and killed by a Boston police officer. Police Commissioner William Evans confirmed from the scene that the man shot at about 7 a.m. at a pharmacy in the city's Roslindale neighborhood has died. Evans said the man was under surveillance by the Joint Terrorism task Force. (Mark Garfinkel/The Boston Herald via AP)

Boston man with alleged terrorism ties shot dead by police

June 2, 2015
In this April 21, 2015 file photo, a sign explains why shelves sit empty of Blue Bell ice cream at a grocery store in Dallas. Blue Bell Creameries will lay off more than a third of its workforce following a series of listeria illnesses linked to its ice cream that prompted a nationwide recall, the Texas company announced Friday, May 15, 2015 (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Blue Bell signs deal with Alabama to begin reshelving ice cream

June 2, 2015
Rescuers carry a survivor pulled from the capsized cruise ship on the Yangtze River in Jianli in central China's Hubei province Tuesday June 2, 2015. Divers on Tuesday pulled survivors from inside the overturned cruise ship, state media said, giving some small hope to an apparently massive tragedy with well over 400 people still missing on the river. (Chinatopix Via AP)

Over 400 still missing from capsized cruise ship in China

June 2, 2015
In this photo taken May 26, 2015, a small plane flies near Manassas Regional Airport in Manassas, Va. The plane is among a fleet of surveillance aircraft by the FBI, which are primarily used to target suspects under federal investigation. Such planes are capable of taking video of the ground, and some, in rare occasions, can sweep up certain identifying cellphone data. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

FBI behind surveillance planes over Houston, other US cities

June 2, 2015
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